Re: removing a word matching a string?

[John Graham-Cumming]

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Mike Tedder wrote:
> Another idea is to somehow have $(wildcard) not pick up a path with
> "build" in it, but from the documentation, it doesn't look like that's
> possible.  And unfortunately, even though $(findstring) finds the
> "build" string within the word, it doesn't return the actual string
> that it found it in, so I can't use that in the $(filter-out) function
> either.
> 
> Any suggestions from the make gurus out there?

How about something like this:

chomp = $(foreach a,$1,$(if $(findstring $2,$a),,$a))

The first parameter to chomp is the list to scan, the second is the
pattern to match, so you could do something like

$(call chomp,$(wildcard ...),build)

John.


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